Four babies after 11 miscarriages

UPI News Service, 04/02/2006

An Oregon woman who had 11 miscarriages is about to have four children -- two she's carrying and two from a surrogate.

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After Tasha Riddle had her 11th miscarriage, her friend Raquel Mitola of California volunteered to be a surrogate mother. Riddle's doctor at the Fertility Center of Oregon in Eugene suggested she also make one last attempt at having a baby, so both she and Mitola were implanted with eggs from Riddle that had been fertilized in vitro by her husband's sperm, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Doctors told the women, both 35, that the odds were against either of them becoming pregnant because of their age, but they're both seven months pregnant with twins -- and due to give birth the same day, June 7.